On Integrating Mobile Devices into a Workflow Management Scenario

While the desire to gain full access to stationary information sources (e.g. the company ́s backoffice database) from abroad is only natural, inherent design limitations such as a lack of computational power, extremely limited resources and closedness to modifications, let mobile system integration be still a difficult issue. In contrast to other approaches to the field, the “Java Border Service Architecture” introduced in this article does not require modifications to the mobile device ́s system software or the application environment to be accessed from the mobile system.